Basseterre, St. Kitts, August 11, 2025 (JNF Hospital Communications) — Maternity companies supplied on the Joseph Nathaniel France (JNF) Common Hospital in Basseterre are empowering in supportive care, and midwives and matrons have are available for top reward from one among their very own, United Kingdom licensed midwife who has roots within the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis.
“The work that’s being finished by the midwives and the matrons in St. Kitts and Nevis is wonderful,” stated Licensed Midwife Halima France-Mir of Leeds Instructing Hospitals NHS Belief. “I believe everybody, internationally, might be taught rather a lot from what they’re doing right here. I believe they actually care about their ladies and so they provide groundbreaking help in the case of maternity care and group care, and we’re very privileged in St. Kitts and Nevis to have such a caring maternity system.”
Midwife France-Mir, who’s accompanied by her mom Councillor Mahalia France-Mir and are within the Federation on a two-week go to, made the remarks on Friday, August 8, after they was given a tour of JNF Common Hospital’s Maternity Ward by the Assistant Director of Institutional-Based mostly Nursing Companies, Mrs Sandra Lestrade-Caines.
Her grandfather, Dr Arthur France MBE, is a nephew of Nationwide Hero Rt. Wonderful Sir Joseph Nathaniel France, after whom the JNH Common Hospital is called. He was born in Mt Lily Village, Nevis, in 1935 and moved to Leeds in England in 1957.
From her observations, Midwife France-Mir emphasised that she was impressed by the ladies and the midwives and nurses that she met, stressing that they’re so devoted and so captivated with what they do, and that it was certainly an honour to fulfill them and see what they do on a daily foundation, underscoring that JNF Common Hospital is a wonderful facility.
“I began my coaching again in 2021, and I graduated in 2024, so I’ve been a midwife for a few 12 months now, and it has been difficult, but it surely has been a really thrilling time of my life,” she stated. “St. Kitts and Nevis’ healthcare is devoted to empowering the ladies within the inhabitants, and that’s one thing that should proceed sooner or later as a result of it’s usually empowering in supportive care.”
Assistant Director of Institutional-Based mostly Nursing Companies, Mrs Sandra Lestrade-Caines, who together with Senior Workers Nurse Natasha Williams took them on a tour of the maternity ward, on behalf of the Govt Administration Committee of Establishments Well being Based mostly Companies, and by extension the Ministry of Well being expressed heartfelt due to Councillor Mrs France-Mir and her daughter Midwife Halima France-Mir for the courtesy go to.
“We have been capable of level out our antenatal companies, our postnatal companies, our labour and supply, and the spotlight was that we’re Child-Pleasant Hospital Initiative (BFHI) licensed since 2023, and we promote unique breastfeeding,” stated Mrs Sandra Lestrade-Caines.
Dr Arthur France MBE is greatest recognized for his unwavering help and promotion of West Indian tradition, having based the primary West Indian carnival in Europe in Leeds in 1967, the Leeds West Indian Carnival. Following the carnival’s fiftieth anniversary in 2017, the Nevis Island Administration honoured him when it celebrated his contributions to West Indian tradition by inviting him for the forty fourth anniversary of Culturama in 2018.
On the tour, he was accompanied by a number of members of his household, who included grandchildren amongst them younger Halima.
Nationwide Hero Rt. Wonderful Sir Joseph Nathaniel France is a reputation that options in each side of the Federation’s political life and particularly the St. Kitts and Nevis Labour Get together. His political profession was distinguished by his success in 9 common elections between 1946 and 1984, demonstrating his enduring reputation and dedication to public service.
This side of life actually runs within the household, as his nice niece and mom of Midwife Halima France-Mir, Mrs Mahalia France-Mir is a councillor for the ward of Moortown in Leeds Council as a member of the Labour Get together.
“My lifelong dedication to public service and group organising naturally prolonged into political life,” emphasises Mrs France-Mir. “I’ve been a member of the Labour Get together for over 20 years, serving as Treasurer of my native department. In 2022, I stood for election in my native ward and was honoured to be elected as a Councillor with 55% of the vote.”
Councillor France-Mir who was born and raised in Leeds has a background in healthcare supply. She studied Neuroscience on the College of Leeds, and after graduating, she labored in laboratory settings at an area NHS hospital, the place she gained direct expertise in healthcare supply and developed a powerful basis in scientific considering.
Having arrived within the Federation on Tuesday July 29, they are going to be returning to England after a two-week event-filled working vacation in a rustic they hint their roots, on Tuesday August 12. In addition they visited the island of Nevis, the place Dr Arthur France MBE, and Nationwide Hero Rt. Wonderful Sir Joseph Nathaniel France have been born – Mt Lilly Village.
“This go to is just not solely a homecoming – it’s a continuation of my household’s legacy of service and cultural connection between the Caribbean and the UK,” underscored Councillor Mahalia France-Mir. “I’m deeply dedicated to strengthening ties, sharing data, and supporting alternatives for mutual progress.”
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